NATIONAL NEWS: POLITICAL VIOLENCE 'TOO COMMON,' TOP REPUBLICAN WARNS

Following the assassination of political pundit Charlie Kirk, the U.S. House speaker, Mike Johnson, said "political violence has become all too common in American society, and this is not who we are."

"It violates core principles of our country, our Judeo-Christian heritage, our civil society, our American way of life, and it must stop,” Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, said following Wednesday's sniper killing at a public event in Utah.

“We need every political figure, we need everyone who has a platform to say this loudly and clearly," Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill.

"We can settle disagreements and disputes in a civil manner, and political violence must be called out and has to stop” he said.